ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Thomas Hanitzsch, Antonia Markiewitz, Henrik Bødker

Despite a growing body of research on the mental health of academics in general, relatively little is known about the situation within the field of media and communication studies in particular.

This study therefore aimed to (1) gauge the scale of the problem in our discipline, (2) identify structural conditions that might produce greater vulnerability among individuals, and (3) point to potential ways of improving the situation.

Read the study HERE.

Tampere University, Finland

A fantastic opportunity: We have an opening in visual information (tenure track professorship at Tampere University, Finland)! We are looking for a person with a social scientific and/or humanities background, who focuses reflexively and critically on various forms of visual information.

Please distribute widely, particularly to good people and researchers that you might know. And if of interest, consider applying yourself too. Happy to discuss if you should have any further questions.

https://tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ&jgid=3&jid=1959

For questions, contact Asko Lehmuskallio asko.lehmuskallio@tuni.fi

October 24 - October 26, 2023 

Tallinn, Estonia 

Deadline: July 10, 2023

Accommodation options are available near the university, more information about hotels is on our website.

Registration fee: Early Bird 300 € /Standart 350 €, Early Bird Student 190 €/ Standart 220 € (PhD workshop included), Early Bird PhD workshop 50 €/ Standart 70 €

We are excited to announce our wonderful keynote speakers: Dr. Kristina Scharp (Associate Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, US) and Dr. Rudi Palmieri (Associate Professor, Strategic Communication, University of Liverpool, UK). These esteemed scholars will be sharing their expertise and their insight of the future prospects. Additionally, they will serve as mentors in the Young Scholars Workshop. More information about the keynote speakers below.

In this year’s conference we will be "Looking forward!". We want to look ahead after recent – even still ongoing – challenging and hard times in Europe. ICSI wants to provide a platform for wondering and visualizing the future and the solutions that we can provide as communication scholars.

We invite paper and panel proposals from all communication or communication-related disciplines that align with the section's themes. We encourage innovative ideas and proposals for future research. As part of our conference program, we will be providing a workshop specifically designed for young scholars, including doctoral students and early-career researchers.

For more information and submission instructions, please visit our website at: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/icsi  

Our keynotes

Kristina M. Scharp (Ph.D, University of Iowa) is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. She is also the Director of the Family Communication and Relationships Lab. Scharp's research focuses on interpersonal, family, and health communication. Her work examines marginalization and how people cope with major disruptions in their lives. She aims to expose institutionalized oppression, understand marginalized populations, and illuminate communication processes they use to cope with inequities. Scharp has over 90 publications in prestigious outlets and has received several awards, including the International Communication Association's Early Career Award and the Leslie A. Baxter Early Career Award in Family Communication. Her work on family estrangement has been featured in prominent media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Conversation, and NPR. Publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fi&user=TFUGv-YAAAAJ

Rudi Palmieri (PhD in Communication Sciences, USI Lugano) is an Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at the University of Liverpool (UK). His expertise lies in analyzing argumentation in strategic communication, focusing on areas such as financial communication, crisis communication, and entrepreneurial discourse. His research aims to understand how the complexities of communicative situations impact the design, delivery, and exchange of reasons by organizational leaders and stakeholders to influence opinions and decisions. Trust-oriented (crisis) communication is a key focus area, viewed as an inherently argumentative process. Dr. Palmieri's research takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining theories from argumentation, rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, strategic management, and corporate communications. He has published extensively in renowned journals and taught courses at various academic levels in the UK, Switzerland, and other European countries. His work involves identifying and examining argumentative strategies in genres like takeover documents, earnings calls, proxy fights, investor pitching, crowdfunding campaigns, and crisis responses. Publications, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fi&user=AoQOm9QAAAAJ

About

The ICSI Conference is the 7th bi-annual meeting of the Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction section of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association). This year’s conference is hosted by Baltic Film, Media and Art School, Tallinn University, Estonia: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/icsi

In this year’s conference we will be "Looking forward!". We want to look ahead after recent – even still ongoing – challenging and hard times in Europe. ICSI wants to provide a platform for wondering and visualizing the future and the solutions that we can provide as communication scholars. Each of the different sub-disciplines of interpersonal communication and social interaction has the capacity to provide an important contribution to the work for a sustainable society and well-being in relationships, families, communities, workplaces, and networks. This contribution may take place, for example, in the arenas of politics, health care, and intercultural encounters, in face-to-face, mediated, and digitalized environments, interpersonally and in interaction with AI. The City of Tallinn, the Green Capital in 2023 provides us a stimulating environment for discussing interpersonal and social aspects of ecological, societal, responsibility end sustainability questions. 

We are also “Looking forward!” to seeing all the ICSI scholars again after four years break, since due to the COVID19-pandemic, the section conference was cancelled two years ago. Now it is truly exciting to meet again in this active and intriguing section conference. The ICSI Conference 2023 provides an opportunity to share our ideas, theories and research about interpersonal communication and social interaction across our different specializations. Connecting our insights from different approaches will inform our own current research, provide creative ideas for future research, and help theory development. 

We call for paper and panel proposals from any communication or communication-related discipline that addresses the section's themes. Ideas and proposals for future research are highly encouraged. Please, submit your 500-word abstract by July 10 (Midnight CET) at the latest. 

We also invite young scholars to join us from the different sub-disciplines of interpersonal communication and social interaction, working with some section’s themes. As part of our conference program, we will provide a workshop for young scholars (doctoral students and early-career researchers). The workshop provides a great opportunity to receive feedback from senior mentors on the paper you submit, and to network with your international colleagues.

Please submit your 500-word proposal by July 10 (Midnight CET) at the latest. In the workshop, you can present either A) an article manuscript you are currently working on, B) an extended abstract of your doctoral dissertation, or C) a detailed research plan/dissertation proposal. During the workshop, participants and senior faculty members will discuss the papers submitted by the participants. Your participation will include submitting a paper (1300–1500 words) by September 30, giving a short (5–10 minutes) presentation of your work, and actively engaging in the workshop discussions. You will receive detailed instructions once accepted.

Submission deadline: July 10 (midnight CET). 

More information and submission website: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/icsi

Media and Communication, Volume 12, Issue 3  (special Issue)

Deadline: September 15, 2023

https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#GeomediaFutures 

Title: Geomedia Futures: Imagining Tomorrow’s Mediatized Places and Place-Based Technologies 

Editor(s): Karin Fast (Karlstad University), Cornelia Brantner (Karlstad University), and Pablo Abend (Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle) 

Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 September 2023 

Submission of Full Papers: 15-31 January 2024 

Publication of the Issue: July/September 2024 

Information: Representations of geomedia technologies tend to celebrate convergent, mobile, and location-based technologies as constitutive of tomorrow’s society and life. In other words, they tend to extend the socio-technological regime we have come to know as geomedia into the future (Fast et al., 2018; McQuire, 2016). As a sister project to a themed issue on Geomedia Histories (Fast & Abend, in press; forthcoming in New Media and Society), this thematic issue aims to challenge what has been identified as “geomediatization realism” by investigating multiple geomedia futures. Hartmann and Jansson (2022, p. 5) engage the term geomediatization realism to refer to “processes of acceptance and resignation not only in relation to media use but also to the wider context of the expansion of geomedia businesses and corporations.” Geomediatization realism encompasses both utopian and dystopian outlooks through which our future with geomedia appears in the singular rather than plural, as if there were no alternatives to the visions of tomorrow that surface in hegemonic geomedia representations (cf. Rose, 2018). In seeking to challenge geomediatization realism, this thematic issue effectively bridges Critical Geomedia Studies and Critical Future Studies. Critical geomedia studies scrutinizes the complex relationship between people, technology, and space/place (Fast et al., 2018). Critical future studies “investigates the scope and constraints within public culture for imagining and debating different potential futures” (Goode & Godhe, 2017, p. 109). Both strands challenge what Fisher (2009) calls “capitalist realism,” the idea that the world defined by capitalism constitutes the only realistic alternative. Goode and Godhe (2017, p. 110) argue for critical future studies that explore the repertoire of possible futures available for public consideration, but also “that both utopian and dystopian modes of imagination are vital for reinvigorating a futural public sphere.” We hope that this interdisciplinary thematic issue can challenge capitalist and geomediatization realism by producing insights into hegemonic and counter-hegemonic visions of our future with geomedia. 

We will prioritize contributions that refer to literature from critical geomedia studies and critical future studies (and adjacent literature), that engage key concepts appearing in this call for papers (geomedia, geomedia futures, geomediatized realism, etc.), and that critically and empirically explore future-directed geomedia representations. We anticipate that contributions use methods such as (critical) discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, (socio-)semiotics, or the similar, but do not exclude other approaches. We welcome contributions by scholars of fields of research that study the interplay of people, technology, and space/place. 

References 

Fast, K., & Abend, P. (in press). Geomedia histories. New Media and Society. 

Fast, K., Jansson, A., Lindell, J., Bengtsson, L. R., & Tesfahuney, M. (Eds.). (2018). Geomedia studies: Spaces and mobilities in mediatized worlds. Routledge. 

Fisher, M. (2009). Capitalist realism: Is there no alternative? John Hunt Publishing. 

Goode, L., & Godhe, M. (2017). Beyond capitalist realism: Why we need critical future studies. Culture Unbound, 9(1), 108–129. 

Hartmann, M., & Jansson, A. (2022). Gentrification and the right to the geomedia city. Space and Culture. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/12063312221090600 

McQuire, S. (2016). Geomedia: Networked cities and the future of public space. Polity. 

Rose, G. (2018). Look insideTM: Corporate visions of the smart city. In K. Fast, A. Jansson, J. Lindell, L. R. Bengtsson, & M. Tesfahuney (Eds.), Geomedia studies: Spaces and mobilities in mediatized worlds (pp. 97–113). Routledge. 

Instructions for Authors: Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal's instructions for authors and submit their abstracts (maximum of 250 words, with a tentative title) through the abstracts system (here). When submitting their abstracts, authors are also asked to confirm that they are aware that Media and Communication is an open access journal with a publishing fee if the article is accepted for publication after peer-review (corresponding authors affiliated with our institutional members do not incur this fee). 

Open Access: The journal has an article publication fee to cover its costs and guarantee that the article can be accessed free of charge by any reader, anywhere in the world, regardless of affiliation. We defend that authors should not have to personally pay this fee and advise them to check with their institutions if funds are available to cover open access publication fees. Institutions can also join Cogitatio's Membership Program at a very affordable rate and enable all affiliated authors to publish without incurring any fees. Further information about the journal's open access charges and institutional members can be found here: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/about/editorialPolicies#publicationFees 

The call also can be found here: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#GeomediaFutures 

Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

https://jobs.aau.at/job/universitaetsprofessur-fuer-medien-und-kommunikationswissenschaften/

Universitätsprofessur | Vollzeit

Bewerbungsfrist: 23. Juli 2023

Kennung: 35/03-PERS/23

Ausschreibung

Die Universität Klagenfurt will mehr qualifizierte Frauen für Professuren gewinnen.

Am Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften der Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt ist voraussichtlich ab 1. Oktober 2025 eine gem. § 98 UG unbefristete oder eine gem. § 99 UG auf fünf Jahre befristete

Universitätsprofessur für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften

im vollen Beschäftigungsausmaß zu besetzen. Die Entscheidung über die Besetzung gem. § 98 oder § 99 erfolgt im Zuge der Ruferteilung.

Mit rund 12.000 Studierenden ist die Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt eine junge, lebendige und innovative Universität, die am Schnittpunkt zwischen alpiner und mediterraner Kultur — einer Region mit höchster Lebensqualität — liegt. Als staatliche Universität gemäß § 6 UG ist sie aus Bundesmitteln finanziert. Ihr Leitbild steht unter der Devise „Grenzen überwinden!“. In den Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings 2022 liegt sie auf Platz 77 weltweit.

Gemäß ihrem zentralen Strategiedokument, dem Entwicklungsplan, gehören der wissenschaftliche Exzellenzanspruch bei Berufungen, vorteilhafte Forschungsbedingungen, gute Betreuungsrelationen und die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses zu den vorrangig leitenden Grundsätzen und Zielen der Universität.

Aufgabenbereich

• die Vertretung des Faches in Forschung und Lehre, insbesondere in den Bereichen Medienwandel sowie Medienbildung im Kontext der Digitalisierung
• die organisatorisch-koordinierende verantwortliche Mitbetreuung des Fachs und die Mitwirkung an der curricularen Entwicklungs- und Evaluationsarbeit
• die Mitwirkung in den Bachelor- und Masterstudien
• die Mitwirkung im Doktoratsstudium sowie an der Entwicklung und Implementierung von Doktoratsprogrammen
• die Beratung und Betreuung von Studierenden, insbesondere die Betreuung von Bachelorarbeiten, Masterarbeiten und Dissertationen
• die Beratung und Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses
• die Mitwirkung an der Profilbildung des Instituts
• die Mitwirkung im Universitätsmanagement

Voraussetzungen

• Habilitation oder gleichzuhaltende Qualifikation in Medien- und/oder Kommunikationswissenschaft
• hervorragende Forschung und Lehre im Bereich Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft in den Schwerpunktbereichen Medienwandel und Medienbildung im Kontext der Digitalisierung
• nachgewiesene Lehrerfahrung im Hochschulbereich und hochschuldidaktische Kompetenz
• Führungskompetenz und Teamfähigkeit

Erwünscht sind

• Bereitschaft zur Weiterentwicklung des Fachs
• Erfahrungen in der internationalen Forschungskooperation und Einbettung in die internationale Forschungslandschaft
• internationale Forschungs- und Publikationsleistungen
• Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft zur Leitung einer Organisationseinheit
• Bereitschaft und Fähigkeit zu interdisziplinärer Kooperation
• innovative Ansätze in der Entwicklung und Vermittlung von Theorien und Methoden
• Erfahrung in der Konzeption und Durchführung von Drittmittelprojekten
• Erfahrung in der Entwicklung von Curricula
• Kompetenz im Bereich Gender Mainstreaming und Diversity Management

Zusatzinformation

Der Aufgabenbereich der Professur bedingt, dass die:der zukünftige Professor:in den Arbeitsmittelpunkt nach Klagenfurt verlegt.

Die Universität strebt eine Erhöhung des Frauenanteils beim wissenschaftlichen Personal — insbesondere in Leitungsfunktionen — an und fordert daher qualifizierte Frauen ausdrücklich zur Bewerbung auf. Frauen werden bei gleicher Qualifikation vorrangig aufgenommen.

Menschen mit Behinderungen oder chronischen Erkrankungen, die die geforderten Qualifikationen erfüllen, werden ausdrücklich zur Bewerbung aufgefordert.

Die Bezüge sind Verhandlungsgegenstand. Das Mindestentgelt für diese Verwendung (A1 gem. Universitäten-Kollektivvertrag) beträgt derzeit € 81.600,- jährlich.

Ihre Bewerbung, bestehend aus

• einem obligatorisch zu übermittelnden maximal fünfseitigen Pflichtteil (nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte https://www.aau.at/jobs; die Übermittlung des Pflichtteils ist eine notwendige Bedingung für Ihre gültige Bewerbung)
• sowie einem ergänzenden Anhang (in einer pdf-Datei), der nachfolgende Unterlagen enthält,
• • detaillierten wissenschaftlichen Werdegang,
  • vollständige Listen der Publikationen und Vorträge und in den letzten fünf Jahren abgehaltenen Lehrveranstaltungen sowie
  • allfällige ergänzende Unterlagen (z.B. Lehrveranstaltungsevaluierungen)

richten Sie bitte bis spätestens 23. Juli 2023 per E-Mail an application_professorship@aau.at.

Für die Berufungsvorträge ist der 16. Oktober 2023 in Aussicht genommen. Für inhaltliche Fragen beachten Sie bitte die Allgemeinen Informationen für Bewerber:innen oder wenden sich an den Vorsitzenden der Berufungskommission, Herrn Univ.-Prof. DDr. Matthias Karmasin (Tel. +43 463 2700 1812 oder matthias.karmasin@aau.at).

Es besteht kein Anspruch auf Abgeltung von Reise- und Aufenthaltskosten, die aus Anlass des Aufnahmeverfahrens entstehen.

July 13, 2023

Online

I am pleased to invite you to the next in the series of IPRA Thought Leadership webinars. The webinar Fighting fake news: why should PR experts care? will be presented by Nidal Abou Zaki on Thursday 13 July 2023 at 12.00 GMT/UCT (unadjusted).

What is the webinar content?

The webinar will analyse the modern era scourge of fake news, explain its origins and its path forward. The webinar will also explore the dangers of fake news to PR including the undermining of authenticity and the erosion of trust.

How to join

Register here at Airmeet. (The time shown should adjust to your device’s time zone.)

A reminder will be sent 1 hour before the event.

Background to IPRA

IPRA, the International Public Relations Association, was established in 1955, and is the leading global network for PR professionals in their personal capacity. IPRA aims to advance trusted communication and the ethical practice of public relations. We do this through networking, our code of conduct and intellectual leadership of the profession. IPRA is the organiser of public relations' annual global competition, the Golden World Awards for Excellence (GWA). IPRA's services enable PR professionals to collaborate and be recognised. Members create content via our Thought Leadership essays, social media and our consultative status with the United Nations. GWA winners demonstrate PR excellence. IPRA welcomes all those who share our aims and who wish to be part of the IPRA worldwide fellowship. For more see www.ipra.org

Background to Nidal Abou Zaki

Nidal Abou Zaki is the founder and managing director of Orient Planet Group. A journalist, author, and thought leader in management consultancy, he started the company in 2000, after leaving his post as corporate communications manager of the Dubai World Trade Centre. Nidal has a BSc in business administration from the Lebanese American University. He continues to write opinion pieces for the UAE’s Al Bayan newspaper.

Contact

International Public Relations Association Secretariat

United Kingdom

secgen@ipra.org

Telephone +44 1634 818308

October 23-27, 2023

Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Deadline: July 1, 2023

https://iksz.fsv.cuni.cz/en/study/phd-studies/phd-course

About the course

Course Title: Discourse Studies and Method: Using Discourse-Theoretical Analysis and Discursive-Material Analysis

Course Coordinator and Leader: Professor Nico Carpentier

Course Credits: 5 credits

Course Timing: The course will be organised on 23 October - 27 October 2023

Course Location: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Course background and purpose

The course aims to discuss two methods in the field of discourse studies: Discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA) and Discursive-material analysis (DMA). Both are grounded in so-called high theory, with discourse theory as its main starting point, but with elements of actor network theory and new materialism. This course will start with an introduction to these theoretical models, but will then move on to their analytical deployment in communication and media studies research.

Special attention will be spent on the creation of a theory-grounded analytical model to guide the research. Apart from attending lectures, participants will be expected to participate in both theoretical and research-driven workshops.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this course, successful students will be able to:

have a deeper understanding of the field of discourse studies, and in particular of its discourse-theoretical component

have a deeper understanding of the theoretical relationship between the discursive and the material

know how to translate discourse-theoretical models into analytical practice, through the use of the notion of the sensitising concept (applied to discourse theory, and to discourse-theoretical rereading of other theories)

set up an analytical model for a discourse-theoretical analysis and a discursive-material analysis

Teaching

The one-week course will be organised in 10 teaching slots, combining lectures and workshops. These workshops are partially theoretical (presenting an article or chapter), and partially research-driven (presenting an analytical model).

Available participant slots and costs

A total number of 20 participant slots are available. The participation fee is 50 euros and only covers course attendance. Participants are required to pay themselves for their travel and accommodation costs, and all other expenses.

Registration

The deadline for the application submission is 01 July 2023.

To register for this course, the following three documents have to be submitted:

A motivation letter

• A brief description/abstract of the ongoing (PhD) research (including the current stage of the research)
• A CV (including information about your university affiliation and your contact information)

Please send all documents and queries to Mazlum Kemal Dağdelen at or use the form on the course webpage for submission.

June 30, 2023

Brussels Press Club (Belgium)

The European Media and Information Fund (EMIF) is pleased to invite you to its showcase event, which will take place in the Brussels Press Club on the 30th of June, from 9:00 to 13:00 (see agenda below). The thematic focus of this year will be “Countering Disinformation in the Age of AI: 2 Years of EMIF's impact.” We would appreciate it if you could also extend the invitation to your members and relevant contacts in Brussels.

Over the course of a successful second year of activities, EMIF has supported 40 projects dedicated to combating disinformation across Europe and awarded a total of 6.4 million euros. Against the backdrop of the fast-paced developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and their influence on the information ecosystem, we have invited a number of grantees to show how their projects aim to effectively counter the harmful effects of AI-generated disinformation or, instead, to leverage AI to combat information manipulations online. Some of the showcased projects utilise machine learning for social network analysis, providing valuable insights into disinformation networks, while other innovative initiatives employ extended reality (XR) games to enhance media literacy among students, equipping them with the skills to detect deep fakes.

The following projects will be presented by a consortium member:

• TRUE INFO (EURACTIV Media Network B.V).
• Decoding the Disinformation Playbook (International Press Institute)
• The Disinformation Laundromat (Alliance for Securing Democracy)
• Escape Fake 2.0 (Polycular e.U.)

EMIF-funded project Escape Fake 2.0 will give a demonstration of their XR games throughout the entire event with in a special XR room set-up for attendees to interact with.

The event will be also the occasion for EMIF’s Management Committee to present its Annual Progress Report, and for sharing publicly the findings of the independent evaluation of EMIF's achievements during its second year of activities .

We sincerely hope that you can attend. Kindly confirm your attendance by registering here.

Kind Regards,

the EMIF Team

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Date and Place:

30 June 2023 – 9:00 to 13:00 CET

Press Club Brussels

Rue Froissart 95, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Do not hesitate to contact emif@eui.eu if you have any questions.

Agenda:

9:00 – 9:30

Registrations

9:30 – 9:50

Open Discussion: AI, Disinformation, and the Changing Media Landscape with Siada El Ramly (DOT), Luca Bertuzzi (Euractiv), and Paolo Cesarini (EMIF)

9:50 – 10:25

EMIF Year 2: Progress, Impact, and Lessons Learned: presentation of EMIF Annual Report (Luis Madureira Pires, Paolo Cesarini) and of the independent Evaluation report (Max Von Abendroth)

10:25 – 11:00

Escape Fake 2.0 presentation and demonstration (Irina Paraschivoiu and Benjamin Arzt)

11:00 – 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:30

Project presentations (Alliance for Securing Democracy, Euractiv, International Press Institute)

12:30 – 13:00

Closing conversation: AI and the Future of Countering Disinformation

Task Force Practices of Academic Publishing in Communication (2019 - 2023) has published Recommendations to ECREA Executive Board and to ECREA members.

You can read it HERE.

The aim of the task force is to monitor developments, engage in debate on publishing ethics and standards in the field, develop clear recommendations for ECREA members and therefore support Association’s mission to both promote and protect the highest academic standards.

Members: Lenka Vochocová (chair), Burcu Sumer (vice-chair), Mercedes Medina, Angeliki Monnier, Klaus Rummler, Francisco Segado, Victoria Tur Viñes, Angel Arrese, Cátia Ferreira.

University of Stirling

Open ended, full time

Closing date: 11 July 2023

More details: : https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-stirling/list/details/?jobId=3654&jobTitle=Lecturer%20in%20Public%20Relations%20and%20Strategic%20Communications

Communications, Media & Culture (CMC) wishes to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced candidate at Lecturer Grade 8 (Teaching and Research) with specialist interests in Public Relations to expand the Division’s teaching, research and knowledge exchange activities.

We are looking for an excellent communicator who is able to effectively teach, motivate and mentor undergraduates and postgraduates. They will make a contribution to the strategic direction of CMC through research, teaching and impact activities, including short-course opportunities. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of modules on the MSc in Public Relations and Strategic Communication and postgraduate programmes as well as BA Hons in Journalism Studies. Applicants with specialist knowledge, skills or interests in one or more of the following areas are invited to apply:

• Digital communications and social media analytics
• Health, science and environment communications
• Corporate communications and branding
• Political communication
• Strategic campaign planning and evaluation

The postholder will be researcher who has expertise in public relations and strategic communications, evidenced by published research and peer reviewed scholarly activity. They will have a growing research profile in public relations, a strong understanding of industry practices and emerging trends, and will engage effectively with external stakeholders to pursue opportunities for collaboration, income generation and enhancing CMC’s regional, national, and international profile.

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr William Dinan, Head of the Division of Communications, Media & Culture: william.dinan1@stir.ac.uk